1. Admin Console for Glassfish v2
Anissa Lam
Jan 31, 2007

2. Agenda New features added for Glassfish V2 Pages with enhanced UI
Implementations
Charting in GUI
User feedback
Q&A

3. New Features in Glassfish V2
One pager can be found at OnePagersOrFunctionalSpecs/AdminGuiOnePager. html
Most are EE features intended for 9.0 release
JBI Console integrated to GUI
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4. New Features in Glassfish V2
Full cluster support including
Creation with instances
start/stop all or any instances
Application deployment to cluster
Creating resource ref to cluster
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5. New Features in Glassfish V2
Node agent support
Allows creation of Node Agent config but not the node agent itself
User still needs to create the NA and start/stop NA through CLI.
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6. New Features in Glassfish V2
Load Balancer Configuration support
Creating load balancer automatically creates the lb- config for ease of use
LB configuration can be exported and downloaed to client machine
Enable/Disable LB for instances and appplications
Ping support to determine health state of listener
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7. New Features in Glassfish V2
Node agent support
Allows creation of Node Agent config but not the node agent itself
User still needs to create the NA and start/stop NA through CLI.
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8. New Features in Glassfish V2
First level node in navigation tree
JBI tasks includes
Deploy/undeploy/List Service Assemblies
Show SA details and Metadata
Deploy/undeploy/List Binding components & Service Engines
List installed shared Libraries

9. Advanced attributes for Connection Pools
All Ciphersuites available for SSL elements generated instead of hard coded

10. Area with Enhanced UI Deployment One step deployment
A common deployment page for all J2EE apps, ejb modules, web apps, app client and Connector modules
Server side browsing
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11. Area with Enhanced UI
Monitor Statistics Data will be in more readable table format
Use of Calendar components in diagnostic generation page
Web Service statistic refreshed periodically using AJAX
Common Task components to give more info regarding each task

12. Charting in GUI Charting will be provided for
Web Services monitor statistics
Log Analyzer page
Log Analyzer module details page
Will be using JMaki Charting

13. Technical info
Switch to use AMX API for most functionality
Deployment Facility API for deployment
Uses JSF Woodstock 4.0 components
Based on jsftemplating, JSF framework for creating Pages and Components

14. Architecture Overview
GlassFish
Admin Virtual
Server / Listener
:4848
“server” Virtual
Server / Listener
:8080

15. Architecture Overview -- files
“admingui” Web Application
“/” -- A few JSPs, html files in docroot.
/WEB-INF
faces-config.xml and web.xml files
/WEB-INF/lib
admin.jar / admin-jsf.jar / admin-en.jar / help.jar
JSFTemplating: jsftemplating.jar
Dynamic Faces: jsftemplating-dynafaces-0.1.jar
JSF Component JARs + dependencies

16. Architecture Overview -- Components
“admingui” Web Application
JavaServer Faces 1.2
JSFTemplating Pages
JSF Components CSS Images JS
JSFTemplating
pageSession event support handler support components
JSFTemplating ResourceResolution
Dynamic Faces
Ajax Support for JSF
MBeans

17. User Feedback

18. Q & A